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Chilean students protest in capital in early test for President Boric

Students hold a banner partially reading 'Just bread, Just tea, that's how the National School Aid and Scholarship Council has us' during a students protest march demanding of the government to increase scholarships, in front of La Moneda government palace in Santiago, Chile March 25, 2022. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Thousands of students marched through the Chilean capital on Friday demanding higher food stipends, the first organized demonstration under former protest leader President Gabriel Boric.

Police shot one student who was stable after being treated in a hospital, Manuel Monsalves, subsecretary of the interior, told a news conference. Monsalves said there would be an investigation into the shooting.

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